Homo Sapiens = Homo Sapiens could control fire, make fire, and use fire.
Homo Erectus = Homo Erectus walked up-right. They learned how to use and control fire.
Homo Habilis = Homo Habilis are the "handy man." They made the first stone tools.
Australopithecus = Are the oldest hominids on Earth that is thought to have walked on two legs.
Aspects of Daily life effects notes
Food Supply
People learned how to cultivate food.
People learned how to domesticated animals.
The agriculture was more predictable than hunting or gathering.
Occupation
In the Paleolithic period, most people hunted or gathered.
In the Neolithic period, people could focus on other stuff since their was a better food source.
There was a wider variety of jobs.
Population/ Settlement
Neolithic settlements were larger and more permanent.
The Neolithic people stayed longer in a settlement because there was a more reliable food source.
Paleolithic people traveled in bands from 20- 60 people.
Resources
More resources meant that people were more developed
Neolithic people traded obsidian the most.
On the Neolithic period, people started to trade
No one traded in the Paleolithic people because they used resources near them
Shelter
Paleolithic people lived in tents.
Neolithic people built houses where they could work.
Neolithic houses were either found or rectangular.
Technology
Paleolithic people used stone tools called "stone choppers."
Neolithic people created sharp axes.
Neolithic people discovered that metal was better than stone because you could melt it, reshape it, or remold it.
Vocabulary:
Paleolithic period- the early stone age
Mesolithic period- the middle stone age
Neolithic period- the late stone age
society- a community that shares common culture.
land bridge- a strip of land that connects the two continents.
agriculture- farming and domesticating plants and animals
hunter gatherer- early humans that either hunted or gathered.
domesticating- to make changes to a plant or animal for benefits to us.
irrigation- the watering of plants by digging the ground so water from a lake or river can flow through so it would water the crops.
homo sapien- the smartest hominid ( we are homo sapiens). They originated approximately 200,000 years ago in the continent of Africa. They were the first how to create fire. They also used tools. They are called the wise man. They migrated all around the world.
homo erectus- Upright Man. They were the first to know how to control and use fire. Originated about 1-2.5 million years ago, the homo erectus migrated to Asia and Europe.
homo habilis- Handy Man. They made the first stone tools. Its brain is half the size of the modern human brain.
Australopithecus- Southern Ape appeared 4-5 million ago. It is believed that it stood on two legs and its brain was about one third of the modern day human.
Other notes:
Their tools got better, soon they invented the hand ax.
=---- this is a stone age tool=
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Hominids and their Characteristics
Aspects of Daily life effects notes
Food Supply
- People learned how to cultivate food.
- People learned how to domesticated animals.
- The agriculture was more predictable than hunting or gathering.
Occupation- In the Paleolithic period, most people hunted or gathered.
- In the Neolithic period, people could focus on other stuff since their was a better food source.
- There was a wider variety of jobs.
Population/ Settlement- Neolithic settlements were larger and more permanent.
- The Neolithic people stayed longer in a settlement because there was a more reliable food source.
- Paleolithic people traveled in bands from 20- 60 people.
Resources- More resources meant that people were more developed
- Neolithic people traded obsidian the most.
- On the Neolithic period, people started to trade
- No one traded in the Paleolithic people because they used resources near them
Shelter- Paleolithic people lived in tents.
- Neolithic people built houses where they could work.
- Neolithic houses were either found or rectangular.
TechnologyVocabulary:
Other notes:
Their tools got better, soon they invented the hand ax.=----
this is a stone age tool